A 24-hour strike on five Tube lines is under way in London causing chaos for commuters, as Sadiq Khan branded the industrial action “extremely disappointing”.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union are walking out in a dispute over new shift patterns.
The RMT walk-out shut the Piccadilly line – including no Tube services to and from Heathrow – and the central section of the Central line that serves Oxford Street and Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park.
A limited service is running on all other lines. Transport for London said that by 9am it was running 58 per cent of normal services on the Tube. Passenger numbers were down by about 30 per cent on last Friday but bus journeys were up four per cent.
RMT said on Friday morning the strike was “rock solid with pickets out in force on all lines involved”.
